Genre-bending Quote by Casey Fisher

“What this requires of us is that we don’t get tangled up in the living, even when we in fact feel woefully tangled up.…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both…

— Lore Segal

“A story doesn't exist until its imagined in someones mind.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“The story is nothing like what you first thought it would be. But so what? It's better - richer, deeper, truer - than the…

— Orson Scott Card

“It’s humbling, though, to think of all the stories that used to be, when they were at their best - before they were stories,…

— Paul Glennon

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“We create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over nature, over…

— Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes…

— Adam Gopnik

“Now, for the first time ever, a story had escaped his control. It had taken on a life of its own, and all the…

— Michael Ende

“It’s not a story that leads the reader to philosophical thoughts. And it’s not a philosophical treatise that needs a story to convey them.…

— Clarice Lispector

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once…

— Candace Fleming